Two Mac users, one set of bookmarks?

Is it possible to have a set of Safari bookmarks sync'd between two users?
What I mean is can I have two users both using the same set of bookmarks? so when i switch between users, any bookmarks from user 1 also come u in user2 bookmarks on Safari?
I now export/ import is possible but not what I am after.
Neil

Yep, that has done what I want, great, thanks
having it web based with a username etc to log into an external is not ideal...and it is also another app to have running on the machine in the background, but certainly a lot better than trying to sync them manually
Cheers
Neil

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Two mac laptops, one iPhone and an iPod touch. Sync apps?

Hi there, between my wife and I, we have two Mac laptops, one iPhone and an iPod touch. The iPod touch is new- is it possible to get the apps that have already been purchased for the iPhone, onto the iTouch?

schmjorgen wrote:
but can i then only ever use both the iphone and itouch with that particular mac?
you can use home sharing to transfer media files (incl. apps) between the two Macs. if you and your wife use separate Apple ID's to purchase content, authorize the wife's machine for yours and yours for hers.
is there a way to make both portable devices work with both macs?
by design, iOS devices sync with only one library at a time.
i am hoping the "home sharing" feature will be the answer but so far i have not been able to make it work.
these links may prove helpful:
Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
Troubleshooting Home Sharing

Mime attachments in Mail from two mac users

I've been receiving mime attachments in Tiger Mail from Ebay and members for a while and I've searched the forum for answers but haven't found a viable solution yet. I end up using TextEdit to open them. I've contacted ebay about this and they have no clue, and think it's spam even though I tell them I get them from Ebay tech support, however they do show up ok in my RCN webmail when I check there.
Anyway that's not the problem now, I was trying to troubleshoot my father's mail problem who is Panther Mail and it mysteriously stopped working for him a couple days ago both sending and receiving. However he is getting them from his webmail at SBC/Yahoo formerly Ameritech. I checked his account settings over the phone and they seemed correct to what he had before but I had him contact his provider.
They don't seem to know what's going on and wanted him to contact Apple.I had him contact them again and they finally did have him change his outgoing mail server from Ameritech to SBC/Yahoo. So he is able to send from there now but not receive emails. ( he still still sends and receives ok at his webmail site) . Since they changed the outgoing mail server however, the email he sends me (all plain text) is coming now as a mime attachment.
I've never seen this before from two Mac users using Mail and plain messages. I had him try changing back to the Ameritech outgoing sever but that still doesn't work. And again if I check my RCN webmail I can view these messages fine in the body of the email there, just not in Mail. Any ideas what may have caused this? Is it because of the Yahoo outgoing mail server? He's about givin up and has resorted to his webmail only for now. I generally like Mail but this is a pia.
Craig
G5 Dual 2.5GHZ, 15 TiBook 1GHZ, I.25 dual G4 MDD, 15G ipod, Beige G3/500GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.7)

<Where is it designated as a "mime-attachment" & where does the "27bytes" text appear?>
It shows mime-attachment(27bytes) just below the little plain document icon. This shows up both in the body of the email and also the little attachment drop down menu below the To / subject area.
<Also, if you go to Mail's View > Message submenu when one of these messages is open, which (if any) 'alternate' menu choices are available (not grayed out)? >
All are greyed out except Long headers and Raw source.
Here is the header info in the message if that helps any:
From: [email protected]
Subject: test
Date: December 27, 2006 10:49:27 PM EST
To: [email protected]
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (EHLO mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net) ([207.172.157.25]) by ms05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id CYF54813; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:31 -0500 (EST)
Received: from mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net (mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.56]) by mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id MDY18691; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:30 -0500 (EST)
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Received: from [75.34.9.255] (adsl-75-34-9-255.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [75.34.9.255]) by flpvm09.prodigy.net (8.13.8 out.dk.spool/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBS3nEOh005937 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:49:15 -0800
X-Orbl: [75.34.9.255]
Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=sbc01; d=ameritech.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:
Content-Type: to:from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=RT51cAASkaC4dXKPZSEOEdmv7ApKJ68xdvGgdP7ifDKDoI6j6EIr5dyZl7OrPcoww SjzfTr1nAxHOJGy0wzYeg==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624)
X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net
X-Junkmail-Sd-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090203.45933D44.001B,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.115.20.39, so=2006-05-09 23:27:51, dmn=5.2.121/2006-09-27
here is the raw source. The last line is what shows up in the mime attachment when it is opened in text edit or viewed at my webmail :
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (EHLO mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net) ([207.172.157.25])
by ms05.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.7.5a-GA FastPath queued)
with ESMTP id CYF54813;
Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:49:31 -0500 (EST)
Received: from mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net (mx06.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.56])
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with ESMTP id MDY18691;
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DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=sbc01; d=ameritech.net; c=nofws; q=dns;
h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:
content-type: to:from:subject:date:x-mailer;
b=RT51cAASkaC4dXKPZSEOEdmv7ApKJ68xdvGgdP7ifDKDoI6j6EIr5dyZl7OrPcoww
SjzfTr1nAxHOJGy0wzYeg==
Received: from [75.34.9.255] (adsl-75-34-9-255.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [75.34.9.255])
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for <[email protected]>; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:49:15 -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
To: Craig Hlady Hlady <[email protected]>
From: bohdan hlady <[email protected]>
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:49:27 -0600
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624)
X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr05.lnh.mail.rcn.net
X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown,
refid=str=0001.0A090203.45933D44.001B,ss=1,fgs=0,
ip=207.115.20.39,
so=2006-05-09 23:27:51,
dmn=5.2.121/2006-09-27
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Booting two Macs from one external drive: 10.8 and App Store?

I boot two Macs from one external harddrive. Does this mean that when 10.8 is sold exclusively via the App Store and thereby linked to a unique hardware identifier, I am going to have issues with activation/authentification each time I switch machines? I have avoided the App Store since I discovered that an app I bought there, and which I really needed to open automatically on log-in, had to be manually re-activated with my Apple ID after every switch (so that I eventually deleted it and reverted to an earlier, non-App Store version).

Welcome to the forum!
There are a couple of "solutions" to your problem. The easiest, and possibly the best for you (although it is a bit slower) is to copy your catalog onto the external drive as well.
Then when you plug in the drive, you will always have your latest catalog for access.
The other way is to keep a local copy of your catalog, and copy it onto the local drive as a way to transfer it from one computer to the other.
This has the problem of possibly not being in sync, that is, you forgot to copy it over once and did some editing. Then you would end up with essentually two different catalogs, instead of one in two places.
You can copy the catalog either with your OS, or you can "export as catalog" and specify the external drive as the destination. Then, on your other computer, "import from catalog" and only take the meta-data settings (it's on the import dialog box).
Personally, when I'm traveling, I have my catalog on my external drive as well. It just makes life easier, and I don't have to worry about it being out of sync, or losing it (and not the images).
So, I would go with the first method, at least to start. To get your catalog over there, you can either export as catalog or copy it, either one will work.
You can find the location of your catalog file (if you don't know where it is) in the catalog settings menu prompt. Both the location and the name will be displayed.
Cheers!

Can I backup two macs onto one external time machine?

Can I backup two macs onto one external time machine drive? I am trying to do this over Wi-Fi.

Yes, the external drive has to be formatted correctly to HFS+ and shared to the network.
It doesn't matter how the second machine logs into the network but wireless back will be extremely slow as it will involve double hop wireless, I presume to a wifi router somewhere. For incremental backups this is no biggie but do the initial backup with the drive plugged into that particular computer or over ethernet.. gigabit for preference.
Pondini has some instructions as he has for most things.
http://pondini.org/TM/4.html
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If you are planning using something other than wifi router give clear information about the network layout you have and hope to use.

Two Macs and one USB drive?

Can two Macs share one USB drive at the same time? Is there some kind of networking gizzie that would allow this?

If you have a router like the AirPort Extreme - you attach the USB drive to the router and it shares the disk for you.
I know there are other Wireless Access Points and Routers that provide similar functionality, but not all routers do this.
It seems like you are looking for a NAS solution. Typically these are boxes with USB and ethernet ports that you simply install on the network. Right now - Leopard does not always play nicely with them.
Mine is a CoolMax 550 - and it is accessible via command line (terminal) and FTP but unreliably through Finder. Many people hope 10.5.2 resolves this type of issue but no one knows for sure.
Honestly with the price of storage so low - most people just add another drive. Each of my Macs has it's own backup drive on top of the one shared from my Airport Extreme. Storage is down near $0.30/GB or less.
The first time I bought a TB of disk, I spent over a million dollars (thankfully not my money). Today I have over 5TB at home.
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Sharing between two macs with one user account?

Is it possible to connect two macs to share documents and music if they are both logged into the same user account?
I recently bought a Mac Mini and when setting it up, I transferred everything from my Macbook Pro to it, including my user profile which I now also use on the Mini.
Since setting up the Mini, I've been using both machines so the content on both is no longer identical. There have been occassions where I have wanted to transfer something from the MBP to the Mini or vice-versa over wi-fi and have encountered problems. I suspect this is because I am using the same user account and they get confused.
I don't need the two macs to be identical in their content, however there are times when I want to share or quickly transfer music, documents or Garageband files from one to another. Would I be better off setting up different profiles for the Mini and the MBP to achieve this? Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?

There have been occassions where I have wanted to transfer something from the MBP to the Mini or vice-versa over wi-fi and have encountered problems. I suspect this is because I am using the same user account and they get confused.
Could you please explain, what kind of problems exactly you encountered? Error messages? Corrupted files? And why do you think the problem is caused by the same user profiles?
Like markwmsn I have no problem with sharing using the same account name on all my macs. Only since upgrading to Mt. Lion I usually use AirDrop to send single files. That saves the trouble to copy the files to a public folder.
Do both your macs support Air Drop?
OS X Lion: Share your files with others near you
and the requirements: HT5444
Regards
Léonie

Two Macs, only one fully autheticates with MS proxy... any suggestions?

*+The short version:+* I have two Macs with identical settings, but after installing Security Update 2007-007 one will play streaming MPEG audio in iTunes (amongst other things) and one will not.
*+The long detailed version:+*
I'm having a weird network authentication problem with two Macs that have identical setups. Both are behind a crappy corporate Microsoft ISA proxy server that has driven me nuts for years. They are both running identical systems (10.4.10), both have identical network settings and both are bound to Active Directory.
One Mac connects to the internet fine, while the other usually prompts for authentication or fails to connect with many apps. For example the Mac that works (let's call it Mac A) can connect to the iTunes Store and Microsoft AutoUpdate, while Mac B does not. In iTunes I would get the message “iTunes could not connect to the iTunes Store. You must log in to the proxy server in order to access the iTunes Store.”
The weird thing is that I could still listen to MPEG audio streams and access song names from the CDDB on Mac B (I have grown used to there not being true universal proxy support in OS X. Adobe CS2 Software Update will not work with a proxy that needs to authenticate, iChat has its own settings, and for a long time Mozilla with its built-in NTLM authentication was the only way besides IE that I could even get online before 10.4).
The problem for me is that after running Security Update 2007-007 I noticed that I can no longer listen to streaming music in iTunes on Mac B, but Mac A still works. That's when I noticed the other things that Mac A can connect to but Mac B does not, which is why this is starting to drive me crazy.
Things I've tried or checked to get Mac B to work:
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-Both have identical Samba config file settings.
-Deleted all of my keychains and started fresh.
-I tried updating iTunes from 7.3.1 to 7.3.2, but no go.
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Fatal Error: unable to connect to talker socket. Errno: Interrupted system call
Couldn't open connection to proxy server. Errno: Interrupted system call
-I've tried running OnyX, Yasu and AppleJack to repair permission and clear out any cache that might be causing a problem.
-I've gone through the various log files to look for noticeable errors, but nothing seems to be coming up.
Network items that work on both Macs:
-Safari, Firefox, Dashboard Widgets, Software Update, Entourage, network drives
Another difference is that Firefox never prompts for username & password on Mac A, but does at startup every time on Mac B. The only way I can get around this is to manually create a Kerberos ticket and then Firefox will not prompt for authentication (Kerberos will not create a ticket automatically on both Macs, I read this was a bug with logging in to AD with an admin Mac account). But the Kerberos ticket does not help with my iTunes or other network problems.
If I've gotten all this to work, then why am I complaining? Because the streaming radio gets me through the day at work, simple as that.
I'm trying to be as detailed as possible so that I cover the bases and hope that maybe someone comes across this with a search and have found an answer or maybe have something new to try.
A big thanks for taking the time to read all of this and think it over.
P.S. I hate you Microsoft.

Aha! I've figured it out!
But not before resetting the PRAM and VRAM, re-installing 10.4.10 with the combo installer, and installing Wireshark to try and figure out what network requests were getting denied.
What did it was manually setting the IP address on the problem Mac to the IP from the Mac that was working. I came across this post (http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-25049.html) where someone said the fix for them was to be in a certain IP range. I had previously tried renewing the DHCP, but I had to manually set the IP to the specific address to get it to work. I figured it had to be something on the server side since, like I said, both Macs had the same exact network settings.
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If anyone knows, please tell me! Thank you!

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(http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#ical)
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Have looked under System Preferences and confirmed file sharing status that allows both her and me to Read/Write to all files in her Public folder. Confirmed that I quit Lightroom under her account (not just minimized) and logged off as her (not just switching users).
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After creating two mac users do not see when I turn on the second

Hello , after installing Yosemite I created two administrative users , turn on the computer but I do not see you and the other , I have to get into the first and by this move to the second . how do I fix ? thank you very much

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I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact issue you are describing. If you are saying that you are not seeing a login screen or the second user on startup, thereby forcing you to go into the first user and then switch to the second user, you may need to check your Login Options. You may find the following articles helpful:
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Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups.
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Please advise..I have two Mac Minis. One is older with no Airport card and one is newer and came with an air port inside. I also have an Airport Extreme and A Speedstream 5100 Ethernet ADSL modem. Here's the deal: I connected the old MacMini with no airport to the AirPort Exreme via LAN port. I also connected the Speedstream 5100 modem via ethernet cable to Airport Exreme. I can get onto the internet on the old Mac Mini with this set up. However, I cannot get the new Mac Mini's Air Port to work or "see" the network. Not sure what to do next...

I also connected the Speedstream 5100 modem via ethernet cable to Airport Exreme.
Just to double-check. Do you have the Speedstream connected to the WAN (circle-of-dots) port on the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn)?
However, I cannot get the new Mac Mini's Air Port to work or "see" the network.
Which radio mode to you have the AEBSn configured for? The default is "802.11n (b/g compatible)". Also, which wireless encryption are you using? Do you have the AEBSn configured to not broadcast its Network Name (SSID)? ... or using MAC filtering?

Can I control two Macs with one keyboard & mouse simultaneously?

I'm presently the operator and head audio tech for a major Off-Broadway show. I'm running the show on Ableton Live 6 through a Mac Mini, using a MOTU 828mkIII as the Firewire audio interface to the console. "Show control" is basically straight music playback, plus arming and disarming loops, triggering sound FX cues, and stopping and starting playback. The show has been exceedingly stable, no real reason to worry - but the fact that I don't have a redundant backup system concerns me. Theoretically, I can use our Denon CD players to run the show off of discs I've burned, but it's only viable for me because I know the show; a sub running the show would be up the creek - and if we hit a snag and run out of loops, forget it. Furthermore, those of you who've worked with Live know that in a performance based/show control situation, you can remain in an audio loop indefinitely, without any worry of a CD running out of prerecorded loops. (This is a specific reason why we're using Ableton for this show - the music can keep "vamping" until automation and rigging give me the clear to proceed.)
Considering that I'll be taking some time off this summer, I don't want this to be a concern for my sub(s), so I've charged myself with the task of building a redundant backup. Problem is, I'm not sure how to do it.
What I've been looking at is a dual Ableton Live/Mac Mini/Firewire interface system. Basically, to duplicate what's running the show presently, and have it running in tandem while the main playback system goes to the house - but for both to be controlled by only one mouse, keyboard and screen, so there's no delay in the event of a crash. If one fails, I send the audio from the backup into the theatre. There would be no disruption of playback, except for the operator`s response time in switching to the backup`s audio output.
Software like Synergy and Teleport let me share a single keyboard, mouse, and screen over two or more computers - +but only control one computer at a time+. And I've looked for KVM switches and USB "splitters" but they also seem to be toggle devices between one or another computer - which leads me to think I may have to network the two...
Any ideas are appreciated, even the obvious ones, as I may have overlooked some or assumed some to be out of the question.
That`s basically it - *simultaneous realtime* control of two computers from one keyboard and mouse. Both Minis performing the same task at the same time.
Is there software/hardware that can do it, or can I network the backup as a "slave" that mimics the master?
Thanks.

Perhaps you could setup a parallel processing network:
http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/
The website was last updated 5 days ago according to Google. Hopefully their server will be back up soon. I noticed it wasn't connecting when I tried.

Is it possible to sync one iPhone to two Macs? One for the music library and one for contacts, emails etc

At home I have two Macs, one for work and another which acts as a sort of entertainment hub storing all my music, podcasts and videos as well as being for the family to use.
Is it possible to sync my one iPhone to both Macs, with the work one just syncing things like my contacts, emails, calendars and apps while the other Mac would sync just the podcasts and music to the iPhone.
Would this cause any problems and what is the correct way to go about this?
Thanks for any help, tips and advice.

As wjosted said, it's possible, but it's not recommended.
Email does not sync with a computer. Only email account information is. Mail itself is synced with the mail server.
Why not just sync with the computer you keep your media on and use iCloud (or whatever cloud service you want) to sync the rest? Seems simpler to me.

Using two macs with one copy of LE8?

Hi, I've got a copy of logic express 8 installed on my iMac, and wanted to use it on my dad's Macbook so that I can use it at practices/live etc. but it only comes with one license number, so when I try and install it on the macbook it says it's already registered. Is there any way over this?

Hi,
normally, it is possible to use the License Key twice (on two Macs). That's what the license says. If it isn't possible, i'd suggest to phone apple for support.
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